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on 05/22/2014 at 01:28 PM
Montana man will be found guilty of homicide.
His initial defense is crap: not so much that he set up a sting operation, but that he had a video feed ahead of time. He knew how many were in his barn, how large, and where. Also whether they were outwardly armed. He could have just shut the barn door and locked them in.
He could have fired a warning shot. Instead he aimed 4 rounds into the barn? That’s intent to kill. Maybe he could have got away with 1. But not 4.
Guilty. And his wife too, as an active accessory.
Ooopsy
Warning shot, Drew? No, no such thing under the law. And in fact, is a felony in many jurisdictions. In Florida there are people in prison for 20 year minimum sentences for warning shots, yet had they shot the bad guy, would have been free and clear under castle doctrine. You never, ever, ever fire a warning shot.
Plus, you have no idea what he saw in his video feed. Did it have night vision or lo-light? He went out to stop a thief, claims to have heard a noise like metal on metal and fired. Shooting an intruder, even if you ‘baited’ one into stealing something that could be recovered and traced later, is quite legal.
Where this cat fucked up was in telling people his plans. I’d still no-bill him if I were on the grand jury because fuck thieves, but he’s probably toast.Posted by baboy
05/23/2014 at 12:23 PM
Agreed, the “warning shot” concept is long past it’s sell-by date. And no, I don’t know what he saw on his monitors. And I’m no expert on where castle doctrine draws the line in his state. But I still think he was looking to shoot somebody, and that’s what he did.
“On Sunday, a woman told investigators that Kaarma had told her that he had been waiting up for three nights with his shotgun to shoot a kid, court records said.” Granted, that’s hearsay, but ...
“ Pflager told investigators that she had placed a purse in the garage the night before the shooting so that it could be seen with the door rolled open. She placed a baby monitor in the garage and had motion sensors installed outside, court documents obtained by the paper show.
Suddenly, she said a sensor alerted them that someone was outside as the couple watched television shortly after midnight.
Pflager used the baby monitor to see that a suspect was rummaging through the garage and took pictures of the images with her phone.
Kaarma jumped up from the couch and grabbed the shotgun he placed near the dining room before marching out the front door so he could approach the suspects from the outside.
One of the bandits managed to dart out of the way before Kaarma trapped Dede inside and opened fire on the unarmed teen.
“Hey, hey,” Pflager heard Kaarma yell before he chambered a round in the shotgun.
The wife said she heard Dede reply, “hey,” or “wait,” before she heard the first two blasts. Kaarma fired two more shots before Pflager managed to turn on the lights and found the wounded teen bleeding inside the garage.
Interesting ... TWO people broke into the garage. Oh, and it was a suburban McMansion, not some farmhouse.
BIAS ALERT: “trapped” the “unarmed teen” and “opened fire”. Find pictures of the vic. Guy looks like he hit puberty at about 8. Probably shaved 3 times a day. Full grown man, not some little baby angel like 10 yo Trayvon.
There was something at another link that talked about how the 4 shot swept the garage, 3 shots aimed low and one high. And another one said how the “bait” purse wasn’t visible from the garage door they left open ... or was it only open a bit because they use the garage as their smoking room ... or was it a regular human door in the garage that was open and not the vehicle garage door? The story gets muddy, fast.
Another said the video showed Diren in the garage, using a flashlight? Sounds like an actual burglary, not this “garage hopping” BS that nobody on earth has ever heard of before. Pool hopping, sure maybe when I was young. But now everyone has a locked fence and security lights around their pools, just for legal protection. Going in garages is B&E.
LOTS of news stories to be found on this one - try and trace it back to the source
